miolu
Sicilian
editAlternative forms
edit- mijolu (orthographic spelling)
Etymology
editInherited from Latin modiolus (“wheel hub”). Compare French moyeu.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmïolu m (plural mïoli)
References
edit- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1231: “il mozzo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “miolu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 2507
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “mïòlu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 3, page 169